Description

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about the new mail bag, joke kit, two-factor auth, and unmanagement.

• Lauren unleashes her software and hardware hacking skills: Best of open hardware in 2014
• Raspberry Pi B+ and camera module
• SimCity: It’s as bad as Civilization
• Amex Chip-and-Signature: What’s the point?
• D&G Joke Kit of the Week: An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM
  • CatGenie community custom firmware and cartridge emulator!
• NYPD Cop Killer Used App to Track Police Movements Since Early December
• He sees you when you’re sleeping: Santa Claus and the Surveillance State
• You no longer need to check your tuba: U.S. Department of Transportation Issues Final Rule Regarding Air Travel with Musical Instruments
  • Don’t be this guy
• Help Wanted (must be proficient at barn door closing): Director of Vulnerability Management at Sony
  • Let’s Talk Calmly About Security and Privacy
• Two-factor authentication oversight led to JPMorgan breach, investigators reportedly found
  • Meanwhile in IdM in RHEL 7.1 beta: one time passwords
• Marriott petitions FCC to block personal WiFi to protect their $750/day conference WiFi
• Computer solves the Erdős discrepancy problem. Punchline: the proof is 13GB long, larger than the entire Wikipedia.
• SkipLagged is discrete math for travel nerds. Oh, and they’re getting sued. Of course.
• Unmanagement and unleadership
• New Year’s Resolution: Replace “I Have To” with “I Get To” To Be More Thankful and Mindful
  • Sort of like saying “my wife”?
  • I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Cutting Room Floor

• 3D-Printed Gun Folds and Shoots Paper Airplanes
• Lorem Ipsum, but for Beyonce. (ht @leahbannon)
• Dinner Scrum
  • Almost related: The Dining Cryptograhers Problem

We Give Thanks

• Matt Micene for our first Mailbag letter!